Re: heartrate

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

Common sense states that a smaller heart must beat faster to get the same
volume of blood around the system that a bigger heart would do more
efficiently.  This is an inhertiedable trait.

Ever check the heartrate of a mouse?  It is WAY high...in the 100's.  A
human heart is smaller than a horses', hence our resting rate is faster...

teddy


Gabrielle Wilhovsky wrote:

> ---Patty Lambert <esppatty@juno.com> wrote:
>
> >>I once asked Matthew the reason my non-Arab horse recovered to rates
> higher than many of the others, and his reply was, "the size of his
> mother's heart.">>
>
> So does this mean the bigger the heart the higher the beat?
> Or, the smaller the heart the higher the beat?
>
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